Author: Arthur Lee JacobsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to over 5,000 ornamental, cold-hardy North American trees.
North American Landscape Trees
Author: Arthur Lee JacobsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to over 5,000 ornamental, cold-hardy North American trees.
Native Trees for North American Landscapes
Author: Guy SternbergPublisher: Portland : Timber Press
ISBN: 9780881926071
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Presents profiles of 650 species and varieties and over five hundred cultivars, with text and photographs of flowers and fruit, native and adaptive range, culture, problems, and best seasonal features.
Landscape Plants for Eastern North America
Author: Harrison L. FlintPublisher: New York ; Toronto : Wiley
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
A thorough survey of all the information necessary for choosing plants for landscaping purposes in the eastern half of North America. Details what plant species and varieties are available, what their characteristics are, and how they suit particular climates. Includes line drawings of all species, diagrams of their environmental requirements and periods of bloom, plus many photos.
Trees of Eastern North America
Author: Gil NelsonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400852994
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
The most comprehensive and user-friendly field guide to the trees of eastern North America Covering 825 species, more than any comparable field guide, Trees of Eastern North America is the most comprehensive, best illustrated, and easiest-to-use book of its kind. Presenting all the native and naturalized trees of the eastern United States and Canada as far west as the Great Plains—including those species found only in tropical and subtropical Florida and northernmost Canada—the book features superior descriptions; thousands of meticulous color paintings by David More that illustrate important visual details; range maps that provide a thumbnail view of distribution for each native species; "Quick ID" summaries; a user-friendly layout; scientific and common names; the latest taxonomy; information on the most recently naturalized species; keys to leaves and twigs; and an introduction to tree identification, forest ecology, and plant classification and structure. The easy-to-read descriptions present details of size, shape, growth habit, bark, leaves, flowers, fruit, flowering and fruiting times, habitat, and range. Using a broad definition of a tree, the book covers many small, overlooked species normally thought of as shrubs. With its unmatched combination of breadth and depth, this is an essential guide for every tree lover. The most comprehensive, best illustrated, and easiest-to-use field guide to the trees of eastern North America Covers 825 species, more than any comparable guide, including all the native and naturalized trees of the United States and Canada as far west as the Great Plains Features specially commissioned artwork, detailed descriptions, range maps for native species, up-to-date taxonomy and names, and much, much more An essential guide for every tree lover
A Natural History of North American Trees
Author: Donald Culross PeattiePublisher: Trinity University Press
ISBN: 1595341676
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
"A volume for a lifetime" is how The New Yorker described the first of Donald Culross Peatie's two books about American trees published in the 1950s. In this one-volume edition, modern readers are introduced to one of the best nature writers of the last century. As we read Peattie's eloquent and entertaining accounts of American trees, we catch glimpses of our country's history and past daily life that no textbook could ever illuminate so vividly. Here you'll learn about everything from how a species was discovered to the part it played in our country’s history. Pioneers often stabled an animal in the hollow heart of an old sycamore, and the whole family might live there until they could build a log cabin. The tuliptree, the tallest native hardwood, is easier to work than most softwood trees; Daniel Boone carved a sixty-foot canoe from one tree to carry his family from Kentucky into Spanish territory. In the days before the Revolution, the British and the colonists waged an undeclared war over New England's white pines, which made the best tall masts for fighting ships. It's fascinating to learn about the commercial uses of various woods -- for paper, fine furniture, fence posts, matchsticks, house framing, airplane wings, and dozens of other preplastic uses. But we cannot read this book without the occasional lump in our throats. The American elm was still alive when Peattie wrote, but as we read his account today we can see what caused its demise. Audubon's portrait of a pair of loving passenger pigeons in an American beech is considered by many to be his greatest painting. It certainly touched the poet in Donald Culross Peattie as he depicted the extinction of the passenger pigeon when the beech forest was destroyed. A Natural History of North American Trees gives us a picture of life in America from its earliest days to the middle of the last century. The information is always interesting, though often heartbreaking. While Peattie looks for the better side of man's nature, he reports sorrowfully on the greed and waste that have doomed so much of America's virgin forest.
Trees of North America and Europe
Author: Roger PhillipsPublisher: New York : Random House
ISBN: 0394735412
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This splendid guide to tree identification contains more than 1,000 full-color photographs. Each tree is illustrated in full detail -- by leaf, flower, fruit, bark, and mature tree shape -- and is fully described in the text. A unique leaf index makes the identification of trees simple and accurate. The trees are arranged alphabetically by Latin name and an index of common names concludes the book. An indispensable companion for both the enthusiast and the botanist.
The Trees of North America
Author: Alan F. MitchellPublisher: Thunder Bay Press (CA)
ISBN: 9781571458773
Category : Trees
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Contains both native and introduced trees. Family-by-family, species-by-species, this book surveys some 500 species.
Armitage's Native Plants for North American Gardens
Author: Allan M. ArmitagePublisher: Timber Press (OR)
ISBN: 0881927600
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
A leading horticulturalist touts the benefits of using native North American plants in one's home garden, describing more than 630 species and cultivars of perennials, biennials, and annuals native to the United States and furnishing essential data on habitat, hardiness, correct garden sites, cultivation, maintenance, and propagation.
Trees of North America
Author: Christian Frank BrockmanPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1582380929
Category : Trees
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Presents a handbook for the identification of over five hundred species of trees by illustration and text.
Native and Cultivated Conifers of Northeastern North America
Author: Edward A. CopePublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801493607
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This useful manual provides a means for easy identification of the native and cultivated conifers of northeastern North America. The territory covered is roughly eastern Canada and the northeastern fourth of the United States, from Maine south to the southern border of Pennsylvania, west to Kansas, and north to North Dakota. Because it includes so many cultivated species, the book treats the great majority of conifers found in the western United States and Europe as well. Twenty-seven genera and 130 species are included.